Plants in dense turfs, green or yellow-green. Stems 1.5-3(-4) cm, comose, innovations elongate and evenly foliate; often strongly radiculose. Leaves green, weakly twisted to contorted when dry, ovate, flat to weakly concave, (1-)2-3(-3.5) mm, not much enlarged toward stem apex; base weakly decurrent; margins revolute to mid leaf or beyond, limbidium strong, in 2 or 3 rows; apex acute; costa short-excurrent, awn smooth; proximal laminal cells 3-4:1, same width or narrower than more distal cells; medial and distal cells rhomboidal, 12-18 µm wide, 3-4:1, walls firm to sometimes very incrassate, . Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition synoicous. Seta 1-3(-4) cm. Capsule brown, elongate-ovate, symmetric, 3-5 mm, mouth yellow; operculum conic, apiculate; peristome well developed; exostome teeth yellow basally, hyaline distally, lamellae usually straight mid tooth, pores absent along mid line; endostome not adherent to exostome, basal membrane high, 1/2 exostome height, segments with ovate perforations, cilia long, appendiculate. Spores (10-)12-16 µm, finely papillose, pale yellow or green.
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